Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1887-12-28
Remarkable Industrial Activity Throughout
the S0uth.

Remarkable Industrial Activity Throughout
| the South.
| Throughout the entire South the activity
in industrial developments is increasing and
summary of the principal new enterpris-
es reported during QUE week only, as gath
cred from the last issue of the Manufocfur
ers' Record, shows that the South is rapid
lip becoming the seat of vast manufacturing
interests that will add untold wealth to tina,
section. Taking up the list by States. AL
ALBANIA makes a remarkable exhibit. At
Admission arrangements have been finally
concluded by the unanimous vote of the
| English stockholders of the United States
| Rolling Stock Co. for building i'm men se
| freight and passenger car and locomotive
works to cost 81 900, 600 and to employ not
less than 1000 skilled mechanics, and dis
burse for labor and material SO, 900 day;
a company with capital of not less than
| $500, 600 has been organized to build dwell
| ings in the same place, and work has COM
menced there on an electric street car line
and an arc and incaudescent electric light
plant, the cars to be run by electric storage
batteries, which will DO the first line of
that kind in the South; at Bessemer an
electric light and power plant is being built
and new machine shop will be established !;
Birmingham is starting horse shoe facto
ry, foundry and machine works, and will
probably establish nut and lock factory;
Michigan capitalists have bought saw
mill and timber lands near Brewton, for
$55, 900; Decatur has secured the promised
removal of the Urbana (Ohio) Car Works,
owned by the same company that will build
No or fhnS nj L.
bama two great car building plants, be-
sides those under construction at Birmiug-
ham and Gadsden; at Helena 200 coke ovens
have been contracted for, and at Truss
vile 100, while many smaller enterprises
have been organized. In Arkansas $780,
600 elect.ic railroad company has been Or
ganized at Little Rock, and $40, 900 COM
patty of the same kind at Pine Bluff. At
Athens, Ca, paper mill company has
been organized, and near the same town
a 5000 spindle cotton mill will be COM
menced at once; Few cotton mill will
probably be erected at Augusta Or an old
mill purchased and improved $50, 900 cot
ton gin factory is contemplated at Macon,
Ga, and at Newman $50 600 has been rails
ed for building cotton mill; $25, 900 car
riage factory is to be started at the same
place; a fertilizer factory will be built at
Quitman; a marble quarry opened at Pal
metto, and a broom tactary started at Tai
lapoosa. In Kentucky 65, 600 acres of Goa,
lands have been purchased aud four new
mines will be opened; a wood working fac
tory Is going up at Owensboro. A New
Orleans brewing company have contracted
for a $T5, 600 enlargement. In Baltimore
a $50, 900 furniture manufacturing mpa-
ny has been organized; iron ore property
in Tar lipa n Utl ho
by Philadelphia capitalists; $500, 900 will
be spent in building new gas aud water
works in Baltimore county, while of small
industries such as canning factories and
flour mills, several are reported. In Mis-
sissippl $4,000 canning factory is to be
started at Bay St. Louis; at jackson large
saw mill and wood working factory will be
established, the entire plant to be moved
from Michigan, and at Wesson it is said
that the great WcssoD cotton and woolen
mills probably be doubled. In North Car
olina there is considerable activity in new
enterprises, including two cotton mills at
Salisbury; probably a 10, 900 spindle mill at
Durham; Q wood pulp mill at Lincolnton,
and dozen or more saw mills, flour and
grist mills and kindred enterprises. In
South Carolina $50, 600 engine and boiler
manufacturing company has been establish
ed at Columbia, a cotton mill company al
Gre enville; at Donaldsonville S., coo fl ,ur
mill and at Wallaceville mill. In Ten
nessee, Athens has contracted for water
works; in Chattanooga an ice factory and
cold storage warehouse ale to be built, an
iron works company have purchased 10
acres of land on which to build new works,
the location f>r Few furnace has been Sc,
lected; at Columbia a carriage factory is to
be built; at Cumberland Gap, new indus
trial town is to be started and several iron
and steel plants built at Graysville, coal
mines are beng opened; at Knoxville a
MAJ BILE quarrying company has been organ
ized the Memphis Manufacturing & Brick
Co. will increase their capital from $780,
900 to $250,000 at Moriistown an electric
light plant will be built, and at Nashville a
company to manufacture motors, cars, sc.
has been organized. Texas shows up with
$500, 900 light power and heating com
pany at Austin, a $50, 900 electric light and
m annfacturing company at Dallas; a $780,
600 flour mill company at Greenville; a
$50. 600 ice factory company at Houston !; a
S5 900 canning factory at Jacksonville; a
$40, 900 water works company at Paris, and
$35 900 mining and $50, 900 gas company
at Texarkana. In Virginia railroad ma
chine shops to cost SIS. 900 and $60,000 re-
spectively have been contracted for at
Crews and Graham; the contract has been
made for 300 barrel -four mill at Rich
mond, and $40. 900 lumber and manufac-
turing company has been incorporated,
while several -four mills, canning factories,
&C., have been started. In West Virginia
large saw mill and logging railroad are
being built at Burlington; -four mill at
Jane Lew; a flour mill at Ronceverte, 60.
As brief aummary of the leading antAr-
prises reported for one week only in the
Manu- fdcturcrs' Record this shows wonder
full activity throughout the South and in
dicates how general is this development and
how wide the range of new industries.